langsettlen.
/ˈlaŋsɛt(ə)l/ northern dialect.
a. A long bench or ‘settle’, usually with arms and a high back.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > bench > [noun] > settle
langsettle1352
saddle1489
settle1553
by-settle1602
settle-chair1688
settle-bench1740
1352–3 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 208 1 langsedil.
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 723/37 Hoc sedile, a longsetylle.
c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 657/9 Hoc sedile, langsedylle.
1571 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 366 A langsettell, a round dyssenge table.
1622 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1886) IV. Conveyance of a cottage house and heirloomes (one long settle onelie excepted).
1777 Whole Proc. Jockey & Maggy (rev. ed.) iii. 20 She lay in the little lang sadle at the hallen end.
1790 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2) Lang~settle, a bench like a settee. North.
1818 W. Kennedy Ann. Aberdeen ii. 353 One standing bed of oak; one long saddle seat of oak.
1841 C. Anderson Anc. Models 128 What is vulgarly called the long saddle in an ale-house.
1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 101 Lang settle, a long seat or form with a back-rail and arms; in some cases, however, the back, &c., is an entire boarded surface.
b. attributive, as langsettle-bed, langsettle-end, etc.
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1566 in T. Thomson Coll. Inventories Royal Wardrobe (1815) 173 Item, ane langsaddil-bed.
15.. Aberd. Reg. XVI. (Jam.) Ane langsaild bed.
15.. Aberd. Reg. XVII. (Jam.) Ane langsadill form of fyr worcht iiij sh.
1785 W. Hutton Bran New Wark (E.D.S.) 137 Bibles and testaments were formerly seen on the sconce or lang-settle end.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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